Mothers are born suckers

My Dot Moms column is up for anyone who wants to read about my adventures in toilet training. :loser:

I had a moment of forgetfulness yesterday. My daughter demanded to use the toilet, and like a good sucker, I let her sit on the potty. The phone rang. I went to go answer it and was so distracted by the call, when the baby wandered in, I forgot that she wasn’t wearing a diaper. I snapped her jumper back up, completely missing the important diaper. She then proceeded to climb up in my lap, roll around on my bed, and then wander back to her room. After I finished the call, I realized what a moron I was. Yes, of course she had an accident. It’s the best way of getting Mom’s attention, isn’t it?

I’ve noticed that children will fling themselves into the path of forbidden things (e.g. playing with electrical cords, reaching up to the stove, etc.) just for attention. Oh, they KNOW they aren’t supposed to touch those things. But it’s a sure-fire way to make Mom stop in her tracks, fling herself across the room, and grab the aforementioned baby out of the jaws of death. They just know.

In other news, I survived the tutoring yesterday. I did, however, kick five of them out before we even started because 1) They weren’t my students and 2) They weren’t on the list of kids with permission for the program. Now normally I would never turn aside a student who wanted extra help. Problem is, I’ve had kids show up who wanted to socialize with their buddies and I’ve also had kids show up whose parents didn’t want them home alone after school. Once I narrowed it down to the kids who were supposed to be there (9 of them), it went pretty well. I kept them BUSY. Even still, some of the more behaviorally-challenged minions tried to push buttons before I squished them into oblivion.

Anyway, that was my day. I managed to edit my way up to page 205 last night. I’m making steady progress of 30+ pages a day, which is good.